About a decade ago, I built an FAL and refinished it in Duracoat. I prepped the surface by sandblasting with alox, degrease with acetone (or whatever Duracoat recommends, I can't quite remember at this late a date), and I used an airbrush instead of a sprayer.
Tips I can offer-
1) light...
Guy de Valdene has more than a few excellent books about hunting in France.
While the French jokes are mildly amusing, the French have been major contributors to the GWOT, including doing the heavy lifting in African bush conflicts that most of you haven't heard of. They've also provided us...
This might have been the 3rd or 4th post about suicide I've seen in the past 24 hours. All of them were men, and the others were mostly ex-military (I am too, so my social media skews towards the vet population). Brian, you have my deepest sympathies on the loss of your co-worker.
Suicide is...
I have a CZ Redhead in 20ga, and I think I bought in 2007 or 2008 new for about $750 or so. I've used it for most of my small game hunting in AZ and OR- doves, quail, rabbit, etc. It's my go to shotgun (I also have a 12 ga 870 Wingmaster for turkey). The shotgun fits me well, points great and...
I use these as well. Work great, pretty durable- I bent one on a deer hunt, bent it back to mostly straight and it still collapses and expands like before, and it still locks. I picked mine up at REI during a sale for about the same price ($60)
Best $50 co=pay I ever spent. Had the "no needle, no scapel" procedure on a Weds, was at work Thursday and back in the gym on Monday. It wasn't that bad (although I did play it up for some sympathy).
And yes, make sure all the club fighters are cleared out before thinking that commitment to...
Also check out Mexican carnicerias and larger Asian grocery stores. They will typically have better prices and usually have things like back fat for sale.
I'll echo the other points- focus on cardio and legs. If you can get your cardio-vascular system into a well conditioned state, you should be able to acclimatize relatively quickly, but you will probably still experience mild altitude sickness if you push too high, too fast. I used to live at...